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The magic of collaboration

When the San Antonio InnoTech hosted a presentation on San Antonio’s Emerging Medical Technology conference, a few of the attendees saw the need to expand the effort.

Gabi Niederauer, vice president of research and development, ENTrigue, was one of the leaders who saw the need to build an additional conference.

A year later, InnoTech, through the help of Sean Lowery, the president of Prospera Events, created the first Emerging Medical Technology Conference. Niederauer and others in the biomedical community set up a half day conference the day before that year’s event.

Yesterday, the EMT held their fourth event with 150 people. As someone who has worked with Gabi on the planning committee, I have seen it grown in participants. What made this year’s event event better was the addition of college students from San Antonio and Austin. Several students said they are planning their own biomed based technologies, and they were busy getting informal advice and making connections.

One of the rules of social media and blogging is that I have to disclose that I work on behalf of InnoTech as their publicist. Yet, I wanted to share this story because it’s important for those who want to see the growth of technology that this event can create the start of a movement.

Perhaps, some other tech leaders will meet each other at InnoTech, and they will see the need to expand upon a connection to build something as significant as the Emerging Medical Technology Conference.